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<a name="gstreamer"></a>GStreamer Overview</h1></div></div></div>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gst-building.html">Building GStreamer and GStreamer Applications</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 
How to build the GStreamer framework and applications using it.
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gst-running.html">Running GStreamer Applications</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — 
How to run and debug your GStreamer application
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GStreamer is a streaming media framework.
It uses graphs of elements which operate on data.
The functionality to process media is provided by plug-ins which provide
features like elements, typefinding, and so on.
This allows new functionality to be added simply by installing new plug-ins.
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GStreamer is cross-platform and works on most UNIX-like platforms as well as
Windows.  It is released under the GNU Library General Public License
(GNU LGPL).
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